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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit (9to5mac.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit::A newly-proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

I read this article, because it's absurd to make a class action lawsuit about the free tier remaining at only 5GB. Apple has the right to give as much or little away for free.

Instead, the lawsuit is about something a lot more lawsuit worthy: The fact that you cannot backup your iPhone with other cloud service providers, providing an unfair advantage to iCloud. This should definitely be illegal.

Additionally, can we have a lawsuit over excessive storage markups (that are over ~2x the gross margin of the device)? This is also basically pure profit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I read this article, because it's absurd to make a class action lawsuit about the free tier remaining at only 5GB. Apple has the right to give as much or little away for free.

Additionally, can we have a lawsuit over excessive storage markups (that are over ~2x the gross margin of the device)? This is also basically pure profit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How are you guys reading this article? It took me 5-10mins of unchecking each cookie vendor one by one before I gave up.

Modern internet is a shit show

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Firefox for Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One thing Apple device browsers get so right is ReadingMode. Brave and Orion have the best in my opinion but that list is not exhaustive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's good about Apple device browsers reading mode compared to others?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It takes away all the cookie shit and you can adjust the background to be light, dark, or sepia and manipulate the actual appearence of the text in whatever way is most pleasing for you and you can set it to default to that on all non-search engine pages+easily untoggle it if you need the original appearence

It really cleans it up but I love the making everything dark for night time. Nothing i hate more than bright white backgrounds to articles or pages I wanna read at night without screwing my sleep

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds similar to what's available for me on Samsung Browser. I thought these would've been default options on all browsers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What are the privacy deets for Samsung Browser tho. I try to go for the check mark (No data collected) but thats AppStore stuff. Look into it if you can, I suspect they collect your content/searches and tie it to you

If so, i hope ur behaving u messy beast ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The ddg browser on my phone just kinda does it automatically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I just installed it and now I can use the share button to load the article in ddg.

I'll consider switching to it as my default browser if it doesn't let me down over the coming weeks.

Honestly thanks for sharing with your comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You're welcome. I've used it for a long time without issues.. take a look at the app tracking protection in the settings too. Works well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Privacy badger turned up to max

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve always wondered whether I should bother about doing this. I assumed if I read the article in a Private Browser, no cookies are stored, and therefore none of my information is tracked?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not quite sure if they're allowed to use your IP to index your history or not. If you use private browser and VPN you'll be fine.

I've just never worked out how to easily open private browsers from my mobile sync client

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've just never worked out how to easily open private browsers from my mobile sync client

I think the easiest way is to use the share ... menu to get the link and then paste it in the private browser.

But yeah, no way to stop the keyboard app from seeing the link once it's in the clipboard... And Google also probably gets it from the android share functionality...

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